Fyfe Ewing

Fyfe Alexander Ewing was born in 1970 in Larne, Northern Ireland. He is best known as the original drummer for rock band Therapy?.

Therapy?

In 1989, while playing drums in a punk covers band at a charity gig in Belfast, Ewing met Andy Cairns and subsequently formed Therapy? with Cairns on guitar and Michael McKeegan on bass. Ewing and Cairns would share lead vocal duties. In his near seven year spell with the million selling outfit, Ewing recorded three full-length albums, two mini-albums and numerous EP's before leaving the band in January 1996. The official Therapy? press release stated:

Therapy? have parted company with drummer Fyfe Ewing. The split is totally amicable, Ewing being unable to cope with the rigors of touring. With Therapy? about to embark on a 5 month US tour to coincide with the release of "Infernal Love" in America, a parting of ways was mutually agreed".

Divers

Ewing had meanwhile moved from Belfast to Brighton, England. He played for a short time in a band called "Divers", along with Rory Myers (guitar/vocals) and Jon Hardy (bass). In 1998, Ewing drummed on, and produced, a three track EP entitled "Little Less Nothing", released on Track Records. Although the single received favourable reviews in the press, especially in Kerrang magazine, Ewing left the band shortly afterwards.

In 2005, Ewing was listed on the Sonor drums website as playing in a band called "The Score", although apart from this endorsement, nothing has been heard about the band.

Movie Soundtracks

In 1999, Ewing provided the score music for a Northen Irish short independant film entitled "Dancing Ceceillia", although this name remains unconfirmed. In 2002, Ewing provided the score music for a UK short independant film entitled "Cry". He followed up this with another short film entitled "Love Takes" in 2003. Although all these films lasted only 10 minutes each, Fyfe managed to showcase his drum n' bass talents in each.

More recently, Ewing, along with co-writer Steve Nolan, has written and performed bespoke music for the soundtrack of a full-length movie documentary entitled "Goth Cruise - The Movie". The movie premiered in November 2008. The movie's website states:

Bespoke music written and performed by Fyfe Ewing and Steve Nolan is suitably brooding".

Discography

Therapy? Albums

• Music Through A Cheap Transistor (2007)
• So Much For the Ten Year Plan (2000)
• Infernal Love (1995)
• Troublegum (1994)
• Nurse (1992)
• Pleasure Death (1992)
• Babyteeth (1991)

Therapy? Singles

• "Bad Mother" (1996)
• "Diane" (1995)
• "Loose" (1995)
• "Stories" (1995)
• "Femtex" (1994)
• "Isolation" (1994)
• "Die Laughing" (1994)
• "Trigger Inside" (1994)
• "Nowhere" (1994)
• "Opal Mantra" (1993)
• "Face The Strange" EP (1993)
• "Shortsharpshock" EP (1993)
• "Teethgrinder" (1992)
• "Meat Abstract" (1990)

Other Therapy? releases

• Gold (2007)
• Scopophobia (2003)
• Official Fan Club 1996 (1996)
• Live In Japan (Fan Club Edition) (1994)
• Hats Off to the Insane EP (1993)
• Born In a Crash (1993)
• Have a Merry Fucking Christmas (1992)
• Caucasian Psychosis (1992)
• Meat Abstract (1989)
• Thirty Seconds Of Silence (1989)

Therapy? Promo Videos

• "Bad Karma Follows You Around" (2000) - visual appearance only
• "Loose (Photek Remix)" (1995) - visual appearance only
• "Loose" (1995)
• "Stories" (1995) (version 1)
• "Stories" (1995) (version 2)
• "Isolation" (1994) (version 1) - performance only
• "Isolation" (1994) (version 2)
• "Die Laughing" (1994)
• "Trigger Inside" (1994)
• "Nowhere" (1993)
• "Opal Mantra" (1993) - performance only
• "Turn" (1993)
• "Screamager" (1993)
• "Nausea" (1992)
• "Teethgrinder" (1992)
• "Meat Abstract/Innocent X" (1991)

Divers Single

• "Little Less Nothing" (1998)

Drum Kit

In Therapy?, Fyfe Ewing used a Sonor drum kit, Zildjian cymbals and Pearl drums hardware. The following were his gig requirements:

• 1 Pearl rack system
• 6 Boom cymbal arms for rack
• 1 Tom arm for rack
• 1 Straight arm for a drum pad
• 2 Pearl snare stands
• 1 Drum stool with back support
• 1 Hi-hit stand
• 1 Bass drum pedal
• 1 14” timbale (with 14” Remo Ambassador batter head)
• 1 14x6” Snare drum (metal based only, not wooden) (with 14” Remo falam coated head)
• 1 13” Rack tom (with 13” Remo pinstripe head)
• 1 16” Floor tom (with 16” Remo pinstripe head)
• 1 18” Floor tom (with 18” Remo pinstrpe head)
• 1 24” Bass drum (with 24” Remo pinstripe head)
• 1 Large drum carpet
• 1 Stage weight (for bass drum)
• 1 Fan
• 1 8ft wide x 8ft deep x 2ft high drum riser
• 1 Zildjian set of 14” Newbeat hi-hats (or Quickbeat)
• 1 Zildjian 19” custom medium crash
• 1 Zildjian 19” rock crash
• 1 Zildjian 22” crash/ride
• 1 Zildjian 22” power ride
• 1 Zildjian 22” china boy low”

External links

• Official Therapy? homepage
• Therapy? Biography about parted Fyfe Ewing
• Goth Cruise - The Movie
• International Movie Database